Paw Paw

Asimina
triloba

Life Cycle

The pawpaw tree produces flowers that bloom before both the
leaves and fruit,occuring around April or early May. The flowers are
strongly protogynous and most are cross-fertilized. They are
usually dark maroon in color and have a strong, unpleasant odor.
Many say their unpleasant odor smells like rotting meat.The fruits start to
appear mid summer but don’t ripen until afewmonths later
around September or November. To have a successful pawpaw tree
it is best to plant seeds during the spring months. The trees
grow best when they have some sort of shelter for the first year
of growth (i.e. wooded forests, some sort of shaded area). The
Asimina triloba is a perennial which mean its lives longer than
2 years, and produces seeds, flowers, and fruits annually. As
mentioned in the classification
section, the pawpaw tree is an angiosperm, which means it
possess both seeds and fruits. To the left is a picture of the general
lifecycle of an angiosperm. Find this interesting? Check out
some other angiosperms such as the
passion fruit,
peanut, and
avacado.